Recommended Multimedia

These posts won't be as frequent as the recommended reading ones because most of my online activity is still text-based, but there are a few noteworthy exceptions.

If you've ever wanted to reach through your television screen and strangle the pedantic stooges who conduct poorly prepared interviews that rarely last more than five minutes, then you'll probably appreciate Bloggingheads.tv. In refreshing contrast to the horror of sound bite-based cable news journalism, this website features in-depth, hour-long conversations between smart, interesting people. Some diavlogs are more engaging than others, but they all contain fascinating information you're unlikely to come across elsewhere.

Also, if you like Dan Savage's sex advice column Savage Love, then you'll probably also get a kick out of his weekly Savage Lovecast, in which he answers questions aloud as opposed to in print.

Stuff like this is why I'm such an Internet evangelist. The perspectives one can hear expressed on Bloggingheads are just too nuanced to be able to fit into any mainstream media format. And of course the FCC would never put up with the frank language Dan Savage uses with abandon in his podcasts. So death to television and radio and long live the Internet!